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Rich,
Put your ‘menu’ on a video track of it’s own and point the button to that, and use eDVD 4 to launch your web link from that title set/chapter. eDVD uses specific chapers/titlesets for linking ROM content. If you take the same menu graphic and place it on a track, you will accomplish the task. Make sure the menu duration is long enough for the link to launch (and the viewer has time to read it)–like 5-10 seconds.
Jim
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The solution that karim posted doesn’t require Avid to accomplish. Any dvd (set top) player hooked up for capture would work. It does require you to capture the disc and edit it later, but it’s certainly a relatively straight forward way of getting the task done. It’s not very fast however of finding a specific clip and extracting that.
If Procoder isn’t a route you want to try (which works great for this–I do it all the time for talks I give), you might look into StreamClip (freeware). On a PC you would need Quicktime 7 and buy the $19.95 mpeg decoder from Apple to get it all to work, but it can take your dvd content and like you export/cut/split sequences and convert them to other file formats. For about $20 you should be set.
Jim
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Edius as well as several other NLE allow capture from unencrypted dvd’s. That is certainly an option, but it would require you to transcode the entire disc, then cut/edit what you want, and then output the clip you want. Procoder will allow you to look into the vob file, mark your in and out, and then if you want, set your output back to dvd and it will transcode that segment and output direct to disc or mpeg file (whichever you want). If you use the direct to disc method, then the audio will be mpeg1layer2, which should play in most set top players (all computers can handle it), but some older NTSC machines might not.
Jim
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It gets even a notch better. When you boot up on the Mac side, you can create your content with LiveType/Final Cut/Motion 2/etc. If you format your PC to Fat, then you can read and write directly from with OS X to the Windows partition. I personally would format in NTFS (for a number of reasons, especially file size limitations of FAT), you can still read the files on the Mac side. However, with MacDrive6, you can read AND write to the Mac partition while in Windows. In other words, you take the content you created with Mac apps while in Windows and directly access them for use (in this case, to encode with Procoder). This eliminates the potential need to have an external drive to migrate files back and forth.
Jim
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Pat,
The trial version of Procoder you are using did not support vob file conversion. Procoder 2 will transcode unencrypted dvd’s/vob files.
Jim
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Pat,
Procoder from Canopus would allow you to import a dvd (which have VOB files) and while in the source tab scrub to the in and out point and set the target to then output the file in whatever format you want–even burning back out to dvd.
jim
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Yes,
I have a MacBook Pro with a 2.16 Ghz core duo.
Jim
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Dave,
I agree with much of what you posted. One needs to use one of the more compressed HD formats (that you nicely outlined) to have a chance of the file playing from a standard dvd disc drive. One has to work a bit with the file compression and data bitrates to balence between high quality, and stuttering or failed playback. Some systems will just be too slow or old to handle the content, and having a ‘disclaimer’ stating as such (or minimum system requirements) helps. Some systems won’t have the codec installed or latest version of a specific application to let them watch the content (again, giving the viewer the knowledge up front to let them know if their system will or won’t handle the content helps).
With that said, you can launch HD content while viewing a SD dvd video title using eDVD 4. You can have links to your on disc HD rom content that can be launched while someone is watching the dvd video. If the system is fast enough to handle your content but lacks the codec or updated player, you can include button links with URL’s to specific sites where the viewer can download the appropriate player/codec (ie DIVX, Microsoft Media Player, etc)all while watching the dvd video.
Jim
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Depends on the computer and dvd drive, some play HD files just fine at high bitrates. With higher compressed formats (wmv, divx, h264), you can play most of them just fine, and with a little tweaking (balencing bitrate high enough for quality vs too high for smooth playback), they look and play great.
Of course, you can simply put the HD file in a folder (or as a file by itself), and with eDVD 4 have a button on your menu that will launch the folder to make it easy for your client/viewer to find the specific file and copy to the HD. In fact, you can have a button launch a SD version of it (so the viewer can tell exactly what the file contains) and launch the folder off to the side so if they want to copy and play a HD version of it, they can (and they know what it is).
Jim
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Bob,
Both DVDSP and DVDLab Pro are great apps. DVDSP will allow you to do everything you want. I would check with Mediachance regarding DVDLab Pros’ ability for closed captioning (if that’s what you meant at the end of your post). AFAIK, DVDLab Pro doesn’t support that feature (DVDSP does, but does require a different platform if you’re not currently using a Mac).
Jim